Lovett H. Weems Jr.

Lovett H. Weems Jr. is distinguished professor of church leadership and director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Articles by Lovett H. Weems Jr.

Features

A lever for change

Telling the congregation’s story

Apr 15, 2011 by Tom Berlin and Lovett H. Weems Jr.

Fruitful leadership in an established church requires learning the congregation's story. God's vision will emerge partly out of that history, and leaders must be able to connect the new vision to past visions.

Features

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The decline in worship attendance

Sep 22, 2010 by Lovett H. Weems Jr.

Many people assume that there has been a steady decline in worship attendance for all the mainline denominations since the mid-1960s—the era when most of them began to see their memberships decline. But trends in attendance have actually followed their own patterns.

Books

Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy

Paul Hendrickson

Sons of Mississippi

Nov 16, 2004 reviewed by Lovett H. Weems Jr.
One picture has become a symbol of white resistance to James Meredith’s 1962 entrance to the University of Mississippi as its first African-American student: the Life magazine photograph, taken by Charlie Moore, showing seven white sheriffs gathered in a campus grove, one of them swinging a billy club.
Books

Captive church

May 23, 2001 by Lovett H. Weems Jr.

The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South by Charles Marsh